PlayStation 4 UK price rumoured at £300

A second report has suggested that the PlayStation 4 may turn out to be surprisingly cheap, as other rumours claim it will be compatible with smartphones.

With the expected announcement of the PlayStation 4 now only hours away The Times has claimed that Sony is looking at a price of around £300 in the UK, i.e. considerably cheaper than its predecessor at its launch.

‘Industry sources and leaked internal documents suggest that Sony is considering pricing the new device at about £300, more than £100 cheaper than the starting cost of its predecessor, the PlayStation 3’, says the newspaper.

The article doesn’t simply seem to be a regurgitation of previous rumours, with The Times insisting that the figure of £300 is the actual UK price and not just a straight conversion of the expected Japanese price tag.

If that’s true then the figure matches up very closely to earlier rumours from Japan, which put a surprisingly low figure of ‘over ¥40,000’ on the PlayStation 4, which works out at just over £270.

We’d say that you’ll find out for sure at the press event at 11pm tomorrow, but our understanding is that a price will not be announced this month. Although that plan could well have changed since it was confided to us two weeks ago.